Hector Dion
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: January 01, 1881
Age: 144 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 01, 1943
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One More American
Overview: George Beban plays feisty Italian immigrant Luigi Riccardo, the eternal thorn in the side of New York political boss Regan (H.B. Carpenter). Fed up with Riccardo's interference in his graft-grabbing, Regan pulls a few strings and arranges for Riccardo and his family to be shipped back to Europe. But our hero's cause is championed by muckraking newspaper reporter Bump Rundle (Raymond Hatton), who takes on and exposes the Regan political machine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-02-25
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Auction of Souls
Overview: A Hollywood biographical film about a survivor's experience of the Armenian Genocide. Arshaluys (Aurora) Mardiganian plays herself in the film which is based on her published memoirs. It is thought to be the first film about made about genocide. All known complete copies of the film have been lost. A restored and edited 24-minute segment of the historic motion picture was released in 2009 by the Armenian Genocide Resource Center of Northern California. It is based on a rare surviving reel of film edited in Soviet Armenia.
Genres: Drama Romance War History
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1919-01-19
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A Man's Duty
Overview: When the Civil War was declared, it caused great consternation in the home of John Wilson, as he was of Southern birth, while his wife was a Northern woman, and she favored the Federal cause.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-07-03
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The Wrong Bottle
Overview: Happy in her devotion to her unfortunate sister and the promise of honest love that had come into her life, the girl was perhaps blind to true values. She became indifferent to her life and its surroundings. Accordingly she accepted the stranger and his doubtful promises. Honest love and duty were forgotten, until, caught near life's uncertain edge, she was called back by her blind sister's peril. Thus was true love separated from blind infatuation and life's lesson learned.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-03-06
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The Crook and the Girl
Overview: In the guise of a gardener he came to steal the paper telling the whereabouts of the second will. That was so the nephew might enjoy the inheritance alone. Then the girl learned his true mission, but in the end he restored her confidence and beat her enemies at their own game.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-08-25
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The Stopped Clock
Overview: No doubt the old antique dealer was prejudiced against his junior clerk. After frequent shortages, the clerk's visit to the gambling house was reported by the detective and he was discharged. In truth, he had gone to find the senior clerk, who owed him money which he needed for his mother, hovering close to the edge of life. By sharp detective work, the designs of the senior clerk were frustrated.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-11-01
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Francesca di Rimini; or, The Two Brothers
Overview: Francesca, surrounded by ladies-in-waiting at the palace. Her father enters, and together they read a letter from Lanciotto, asking for the hand of Francesca. Both are overjoyed at the union of the two great houses in marriage, and the daughter retires to dress for Lanciotto's arrival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-02-08
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The Mill Girl, a Story of Factory Life
Overview: A girl who works in a textile mill suffers unwanted advances from her boss. Her boyfriend, who also works there, sees it and knocks the boss down. In retaliation, the boss hires two thugs to beat up the boyfriend, but he outwits them. Instead, the boss fires him. As the boss is forcing his attentions on the girl again, a fire breaks out in the mill...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1907-09-28
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The Fugitive
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-12
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The Gipsy's Warning
Overview: The story centers on a gregarious but rather undependable man whose attentions to a young gypsy woman lead to complications for them both.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1907-10-04
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The Boy, the Bust and the Bath
Overview: A young female boarding house tenant becomes an unwanted object of male attention.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1907-08-03
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The Jungle Princess
Overview: Feature version of The Lost City (1920), a fifteen episode serial.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-06-05
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King Lear
Overview: Silent adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-17
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The Return of Draw Egan
Overview: A small town marshal’s secret past as an outlaw comes back to haunt him when an old associate shows up and threatens to expose his former dark deeds.
Genres: Western Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-14
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Silas Marner
Overview: After having been wrongly accused of murder and robbery, a heretofore kindly and gregarious weaver becomes a nasty, bitter, lonely old miser. Originally a seven-reel picture, a three-reel re-release survives.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-18
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The Wolf and His Mate
Overview: When Donald Bayne, known in the North as The Wolf, loses his cabin to Steve Nolan in a backwoods court, he threatens and thrashes the new owner, then leaves him to tend to his traps. Upon his return, he discovers that Nolan has been killed in a shooting accident and that Bess Nolan, his niece, has moved into the cabin with Rose, her sister's child. Unable to evict her, The Wolf camps out next to the cabin, but soon realizes that this act has compromised her honor in the town. To correct the situation, he forces her into marriage, but she maintains a safe distance from him. When Bess's sister and "Snaky" Burns, her brother-in-law, kidnap Rose for use in their criminal activities, Bess implores Donald to intervene.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-07
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A Lodging for the Night
Overview: Dick Logan, a young writer, stops at a little border town and takes lodging at the Mexican Inn. Two tramps see the amount of money he has and plan to steal it. In the town he befriends a Mexican girl by stopping her uncle from beating her for having broken a water jar. Retiring to his room, he is awakened by the two tramps breaking into his room. He steals out and gets lodging at a nearby house, which happens to be the home of the Mexican girl and her uncle. The tramps follow him and try again. The girl, however, saves him from harm, and it looks as if Dick had found a real heroine for a real romance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-05-09
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Painted Lips
Overview: The daughter of a sea captain, the heroine falls in with a bad crowd and is soon working as a "hostess" (wink! wink!) in a cheap waterfront dive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-02-04
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Fighting Mad
Overview: Doctor Lambert takes his wife west to a mining town, where he can both minister and doctor. His wife is not happy and upon discovering she is pregnant, runs away with a gambler. He soon dumps her, and she comes back and dies giving birth to a baby girl. Lambert, out of his mind with rage, leaves the baby on a doorstep and vows to never have faith again. He returns to the mining town fifteen years later a drunkard. He meets young, kind Lily Sawyer and is greatly impressed by her compassionate nature. Meanwhile, the gambler has returned and decides to abduct Lily, but his partner recognizes Lambert and tells him Lily is his daughter. He kills the gambler before he can harm Lily and soon his faith returns.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1917-11-18
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A Tender-Hearted Crook
Overview: The girl decided after what happened at the garden party that she did not want his love any longer, but could not live without it. She decided to leave this world. Her unexpected caller had something to say about that. He did not have to read "Sarah Hardcrab's Advice to the Lovelorn" to know what to do. Being a very human and sensible person, he brought two young people together in his own original way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-10-02
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The Lost City
Overview: This 15-chapter serial was produced by Colonel William N. Selig, the former mogul whose large assortment of wild animals became the nucleus of today's Los Angeles Zoo. Selig's ferocious fauna added authenticity to a story about yet another white goddess, Princess Elyata of Tirzah (Juanita Hansen), who comes to the rescue of Stanley Morton (George Chesebro) and his sidekick Mike Donovan (Frank Clark), a couple of Americans who foolishly wander into a village ruled by slave trader Gagga (Hector Dion).
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-02
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Their Last Performance
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-28
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The Beaten Path
Overview: A lost film. "The Beaten Path" was a 3-reel 3000-foot film produced by the Eclair company in the United States. The film was directed by O.A.C. Lund, and starred Barbara Tennant, O.A.C. Lund, Alec B. Francis, Julia Stuart, Will E. Sheerer. It premiered in August of 1913. Plot summary from "Moving Picture World", August 23, 1913: "This three-reel picture has many big situations in it. In the cast are some of the company's best players: Alec Francis, Julia Stuart, Barbara Tennant, Will Sherer, O.A.C. Lund, Hector Dion, and others. The story is of a family feud between two families, the heads of which quarrel over a boundary line. The main scenes are laid about large mansions, but there are others in an atmosphere of the Northwest, in primitive surroundings. "The Beaten Path" is a real feature."
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-08-20
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The $5,000,000 Counterfeiting Plot
Overview: A member of a counterfeiting gang gives a forged note to his daughter. When she spends it on a dress the note ends up in the hands of the secret service, who then bring the entire gang to justice.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-09-01
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